Learning in the Anthropocene

While the precautionary principle may have offered a sound basis for managing environmental risk in Holocene, depth and width of Anthropocene made precaution increasingly untenable. Not only many ecosystems already been damaged beyond natural recovery, achieving sustainable long-term global trajectory now seem to require ever greater measures proactionary risk-taking, particular relation growing need climate engineering. At same time, different optical illusions, arising from temporary emissions reductions due COVID-19 epidemic local deployment seemingly “green” small-scale renewable energy sources, tend obscure worsening trends reinforce political disinterest developing high-energy technologies that would be more compatible with universal human development worldwide ecological restoration. Yet, given lack feedback between level, not mention role culture values shaping perceptions “sustainability”, necessary learning end up being both epistemologically politically difficult. This paper explores problem finding indicators suitable measuring progress towards meaningful action restoration an ecologically vibrant planet. It is suggested such are essentially as they reflect, assessments technological feasibility, but orientations Enlightenment project.